Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B and L said that the sums the receivers properly ought to pay themselves could be met out of the liquid assets in the receivers ' hands . |
| 2 | Conciliation officers are often reluctant to express an opinion about the likelihood of success before the tribunal , but will make clear an opinion whether the case appears to them one which is strong or weak and so ought to settle . |
| 3 | Hostility — " I suppose you think that we 're all alcoholics or addicts of some kind and that we all ought to give up everything we enjoy " . |
| 4 | ‘ I think we all ought to hang on to something . |
| 5 | It 's our credibility as well you know we 're being told quality of service etc etc and I think it ought to be a department meeting we all ought to have the opportunity to put forward what we 're doing and where we 're going . |
| 6 | all ought to have a look , did n't we ? |
| 7 | This only ought to take a couple of minutes , then she could be on her way to find out more about the attic . |
| 8 | So Lewis thought he perhaps ought to mention it before going off duty … |
| 9 | They should be doing that work , if they 're asking us to design a remit , price it and then they 're using that remit to get prices from other people , er I would suggest that , that we perhaps ought to have words with our clients on that basis a and say we 're quite happy to tender in competition but erm i you ought to give it a little bit of thought before you actually put the thing . |
| 10 | What , what appear to be , as I said , naive questions very often are most penetrating and bring us up short because they involve things we 've taken for granted for many , many years and perhaps ought to look at again . |
| 11 | Er in fact I think John perhaps ought to introduce a , a course of self restraint for estuary management negotiators erm so that they can have er some pre-training before they go into this forum . |
| 12 | However , the issue is a lively one today , since some contemporary utilitarians adopt a highly rigorist outlook ( arguing , for example , that not to have done all one personally might to feed the starving in far off places is as bad as murder ) which other moral philosophers see as the reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism . |
| 13 | It was worth all the hard work that we had put into it because it got that we used to use the town park towards the latter part of Barnardos day and all the men that we had gathered together used to have to erect every piece of fence to enclose like it is now , the park , is enclosed now with with fencing the men that were helping us did that all voluntarily ! |
| 14 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 15 | She was terrified that she might fall , and so used to fight off anyone who tried to move her , even when she was sitting down . |
| 16 | The right hon. Lady got rid of him because he obviously used to say to the Cabinet , ’ You wo n't get away with this , you know . |
| 17 | Yes an I mean and I mean in winter time a wooden sole and a clog they wer they were nice and warm cos I mean you only used to polish 'em you used to put oil on them . |
| 18 | Meals only used to take about five minutes to eat in there , everyone would eat really quickly . |
| 19 | it only used to hold about a hundred people . |
| 20 | When you only used to do four or five a year — never mind five in one weekend . |
| 21 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 22 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 23 | And they do actually now add , they only used to give you Italian terms , they 've now add added quite a lot of the French ones and the German ones . |
| 24 | Get fifty percent of Dave now , we only used to get like twenty five before |
| 25 | school holidays we only used to get a month they get about six weeks now I think but no we used to get a month 's holiday then . |
| 26 | Yeah well he only used to make miniatures he makes them . |
| 27 | Then you had a a spare man what you sent over the harvest , which you hired for a a month of occasionally they only used to come by the day . |
| 28 | In the case of instruments proof of the accused 's intent when entering the building with the instrument would be required , i.e. was the instrument only used to gain entry ( no entry ) or was it used to intimidate or to steal goods ? |
| 29 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 30 | On no well we only used to have a nearly every week you know . |